East Lansing, MI 48825-1210
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, History of Science and Technology
Assistant Professor. Director of STEPPS.
Professor Largent researches the history of American science, particularly the history of biology and medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written on the evolution-creation debate, the professionalization of American biology, and the history of the American eugenics movement. He is the editor of the ABC-Clio series, Science and Society as well as the Blackwell Companion to the History of American Science, and he is the author of Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States. He is currently researching and writing a history of popular and professional resistance to compulsory vaccination in the United States.
Professor Mark Largent published "Darwin's Analogy between Artificial and Natural Selection in the Origin of Species" in The Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species, which was published by Cambridge University Press.
Professor Mark Largent will be at Schuler Books in Okemos Wednesday, January 30 at 7:30pm for a talk and signing of his book, Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States
Professor Mark Largent published Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States
Mark Largent's Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States
by Greenwood Press in July, 2007.
